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Black Bears, Ponytails, and Close Encounters

In Alberta, hunters like to hold out for big bears. It’s another thing entirely to hold out for a color-phase bear when coal-black, record-book bruins climb into your lap.

Alberta Black Bears Up Close

The black bears of Alberta's northern forest entertain a hunter for days with their lively antics, but soon their curious advances become unsettling.

Field Test: Bergara Premier Stalker

Joe Arterburn takes a closer look at the Bergara Premier Series Stalker.

Advantage, Alberta

In southern Alberta, good wildlife management, productive habitat and strong genetics combine to create a sizable number of good-to-excellent pronghorn bucks.

Boreal Bruiser

Fire, wind, water, ice ... it’s a wonder anything survives in Alberta’s northern woods. Though humans may be sparse, the bears thrive.

Member's Hunt: Graduating to Alberta Bears

This latest Member's Hunt comes from Peyton Spencer of Bradenton, Fla.

The Little Gun That Could: 20-Gauge Mossberg FLEX 500

Just how much gun do you need to take down a black bear? Probably not as much as you might think—so long as you know what you're doing.

Alberta Whitetails & Friends

Unlike many Midwest whitetail hunters, Field Editor Ron Spomer was not surprised to see "America's" favorite deer on the cold, windy, barren plains of eastern Alberta. But he was pleasantly surprised to see the size of their antlers.

Little Bear … Big Bear?

In Alberta good things come to those who wait­—and sometimes to those who don’t.

Bighorn Sheep May Be World Record

Wildlife biologists say the 10-1/2-year old bighorn ram that died of natural causes in Alberta could be the B&C Club's new world record.

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